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violent anti muslim views he was briefly a member of the progress polity here in norway which is anti immigrant and the ruling labor party is who we attacked first through a blast in the city center the government headquarters were hit by a car bomb that apparently he went to an oil and just outside where he attacked a group of children he was dressed in a police uniform he had a gun and he was shouting i'll kill everyone everyone must die we have pictures of children swimming for survival hiding in the rocks and dramatic pictures of a ten year old boy being saved so the tragedy of a nation really hear more now in this report brave christine who was. called bomb explosion in days and surrounded by broken clothes she stayed in the blows to help the. waitress just standing thing and then suddenly it just made i was like i can like
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a fish just waiting for you bumping it out like glass it's in their eyes. you know they got smashed glass all over them the skin and everything this show. victims before giving out drinks as a nation which is never suffered at the hands of terrorists before he says norwegians just didn't know how to react. strong from call some buildings. people sheltering to gaming rolling on this man's wife suffered severe short when their windows were blown out by the blast but he says they're lucky to be alone he's thoughts go out to the many young victims of the second attack i think about. to see the most people die. hard and so it's just the two atrocities produced many acts of heroism which is the dust settles on the walls worst mass shooting. experts say there's also
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closing anger to the attacks were allowed to happen in the first place but it will ignore dozens of hate messages from suspect anders behring breivik you haven't really been prepared for right wing extremism brave expressed fury at the government's open door policy on immigration blogs and twitter feeds. the shootings may reflect a growing national look position to fully immigration policies the political establishment of norway are relatively well off people but they have been areas where there are simply no immigrants the poor people in northern the being pushed out of places they used to live live in and it's also their drug stocks are in jeopardy muslims claim this disappointment that the killer turned out to be wants they want this guy to be a muslim or how muslim you know. it's for them it's a little bit strange because he's in the region so they talk too much about islam
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and about us. it is not good norwegians are said to be fed up with their brand of what's been dubbed radical liberalism it's the country's multicultural policies to turn the government against his own but in no way. far right sentiment. wider than norwegians are ready to admit and there's a polite and respectful attitude towards that kind of thing in mainstream media but the reality is that fifty percent of norwegians are against multiculturalism as people here try to pick up the pieces and bring meaning to this twitter already thing it will sell relations between communities some expect the crackdown by police on the e.u. growing far right movement while others fear this will only fuel resentment against europe's muslims victims are beginning to piece spoke together the shouts of lawyers but the experts warn this might not be the last such attack as outrage at
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the perceived failure of a multicultural society grows the new bush will see oslo. there's brevik said he needed to start a revolution to force a change in society investigative journalist journalist tony gosling thinks there's a new brand of neo nazi terror that authorities all over the world should watch closely. anders breivik thought he was some kind of teutonic knight from medieval times because he's echoing the kind of crusader attitude and it's a very strange version of christianity that he. is he says he's a christian i don't think he is maybe the same kind of strange version of christianity that bush and blair have been coming up with over the last ten years or so so i think that this is actually the tip of an iceberg is actually quite a lot of this neo nazi activity out there and now i think the antiterrorist or thought he's right across the world are going to have to take this brand of
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terrorism much more seriously and particularly worrying is that he was a freemason anders but even as declared that he was a freemason i would imagine that the the norwegian police are now going to be talking to other all the other members of any masonic lodges that he was in because this seems to be the place where this kind of fake christian rather nasty racist ideology was cooked up i would also add that it was interesting that the police said they never come across him before the norwegian police but i wonder very much i wonder if the secret service in norway has been watching him because it was very strange that when he was first arrested on friday the police actually called out his name to him now it was very i would be amazed if they would have actually known as they first approached him what his name was i would have thought that from the arrest point that's where the investigation would have started from. crowds of protesters have converged in spain's capital madrid after marching from across the
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country they're angry at the soaring unemployment the highest in the eurozone and at the government's failure to tackle the recession or to go has more from the spanish capital where the demonstrators have set up. spain has one of the highest unemployment rates in the eurozone in fact it has the highest unemployment rates among the youth in the european union and of course this has resulted in thousands upon thousands of young people who cannot find a job in their home country taking matters into their own hands and protesting literally for days and days on end and that the protests have started on the main on may fifteenth of this year and this is why the movement this multi thousand people movement is pulled fifteen am movement so this particular time they have pulled out from from several cities in fact more than a hundred cities from all across spain that have walked here by foot a lot of them about walk here here in order to come here to the very center of the green the so-called plumbers zero in order to press their indignation in the cold
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the margins of indignation at what the government is literally not doing to help the situation in the country there's thousands of people i mean the i use you can see they're gathering all around the because for them this is a big deal they're trying to get all the attention that they can because they believe that their government is focusing instead on what the i.m.f. the w. o. and the world bank are doing and not paying attention to the people in spain they demand more jobs in fact they're saying it's not about the high pensions and it's not so much about the social benefits it's about certainly getting a job in the story country they believe that if they take matters into their own hands that they can do something they have actually set up camp right here in the middle of one of those so they have been here for days and they think that if they continue to push their opinion peacefully they will reach their desired goal they have to remember that all of this is happening right when right when the situation is in some other group in countries like in the neighboring portugal or in greece is that anything is basically everything but dire greece has received another be
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allowed but a lot of critics are saying that that is not going to help the country in any way a portugal has been downgraded by several agencies to have this. recently has been blacklisted for the economic woes and the famous don't want their country to go down the drain there again like i said before they're calling on the government to stop talking to focus on the matters in the country and to actually help the people in the country and not pay attention to what the big european big heads are hoping or trying it to pretend as if they are doing and that is they feed off people who have surrounded me right gary literally tens of thousands of people from all across the bay and this is their main goal to take matters into their own into their own hands and to help the country if nobody else will help it's. the one hundred nine billion euro bailout for greece was agreed after it approved severe austerity measures sending thousands onto the streets in protest rescue will also involve
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lowering interest rates on greek debt and extending the repayment period but financial analyst max kaiser says it'll only plunge people deeper in trouble. it increases the amount of debt it increases the amount of debt in the eurozone it is increased of the amount of debt in greece so this is a plan cooked up by bankers to repackage risa carrots eyes really sell debt that's what they do and it crowds out the real economy so if they think that this is going to help the economy grow their way to a position of paying off this debt or paying the interest on the debt that's not going to happen because by giving bankers more dead to control the productive part of the economy you are eliminating that part of the economy's ability to pay off this debt so the banking cancer is just becoming worse in the eurozone and worse in greece bring out the banks there but not bailing out the workers or the people who are on the ground so to speak they're bailing out european banks they're bailing
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out wall street banks they're bailing out other banks and so doing they're increasing the debt load so it's making the situation much worse and they're crowding out any ability for the work workers in greece to generate enough income to pay off this debt this is consigning the population to debt servitude. stay with us here on r t still ahead in the program funding the revolt as germany prepares to send millions of euros to libyan rebels how will that money you plus. you know starts handing over control of afghan provinces to local security forces but many question but there are the titles. also this week the phone hacking and police bribery scandal was taken to the british parliament rupert murdoch his son james and former u.k. c.e.o. rebecca brooks were all grilled by british lawmakers for several hours the trio said they were deeply sorry for what happened but the new allegations of emerged at
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the news international chairman james murdoch misled them saying he was unaware of the true extent of illicit phone tapping by his company's reporters and murdoch's could now face legal challenges in the u.s. over claims the voice mails of nine eleven victims were also targeted meanwhile back in the u.k. the scandal appears to be spreading beyond the murdoch empire with claims the sunday mirror tabloid may have also valued celebrities voicemail messages but authorities got a cheeky on reports critics believe the issue is just the tip of the iceberg in a world that may no longer value individual privacy. as the scandal over phone hacking by the murdoch media empire rages on public and political fury has mainly focused on ruthless tabloids out of control prepared to invade people's private lives and even the dad to get the story but some say in this day and age the whole concept of privacy is falling apart and in the u.s. more rapidly than elsewhere every time you tap on your cell or click on google or
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use your mail service everybody's sort of just clicks through that you agree to our terms and conditions well those terms and conditions are very very heavily weighted against you and your privacy interests we see breaches of privacy happening. all across america all across the. really in every sector surveillance is rampant but really here this is all a microcosm the biggest surveil are all which is the state there's little americans can do with the state having sweeping access to their private information access that followed the nine eleven terrorist attacks under a new law known as the patriot act asana law his privacy was taken away from him in two thousand and two when he was detained by the f.b.i. for absolutely no reason he says and scrutinized for months without charge he's response for nine years he has voluntarily documented nearly every waking hour of his life on the web he has subsequently even turned it into
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a form of art see all the toilets that i've used so you know that over here for example you know that on sunday november twenty fourth of two thousand and seven i've used this toilet i went grocery shopping at safeway over there on october seventeenth i got gas over here he posts copies of every debit card transaction so you can see what he bought where and when a g.p.s. device in his pocket reports his realtime physical location on a map and this is the shot he took on his way to our studio which was immediately uploaded on his website hasan says his extraordinary abandonment of his own privacy stems from the ignorance of the authorities but in the fear they decided well that guy looks a little different so he must be arab and if he's arab then he must have explosives everyone knows that that's the logic we're operating we we realize how ridiculous that logic sounds but when your country when your own country takes that on as the basis for national policy. ignorance as the basis of national policy is
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a pretty scary situation. and that's how i got caught up in it for haasan privacy has become a rally of the past and he says he's not surprised that journalists or anyone else really would use the same surveillance tactics as the state in that sense it might be of no surprise that the chief architect of the patriot act the lawyer who put it together happens to be one of murdoch's hand-picked used for board directors you served as assistant attorney general in the bush administration and was described by some as the purveyor of the most sweeping curtailment of freedom in the us this is the mccarthy era at a time when corporations and the government can easily hack into people's private lives it doesn't come as a surprise when for example social networks give your personal information to at companies or when other industries leave on breaching people by the seat in the u.s. it's so widespread and people have gotten so used to it that rupert murdoch seems
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to be perfect art of the system rather than some special bill and with corporation has been undertaking some unique all lawful practices because here in america they're not so unique i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . germany says it will lend libya's rebels one hundred million euros for civilian and humanitarian purposes brylin opposed the military intervention in the country but promised to help out with colonel gadhafi through peaceful means crystal forrestal a government consultant in germany say there is no guarantee the funds will be used for exclusively peaceful purposes. it is really a big question of what this money is being used for first of all who controls that then next has nato ever cared for the civilian population in libya i don't think so . you know a group of countries bombing libya and using you really a weapons that of course is
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a group of countries not caring for the civilian population i see differently. another point i see that the important town of brega which is hotly debated among the rebels and the government as who owns this now might be a question with some of this money might be used in fact to buy the try to get the town into the hands of the rebels i think that's the question here quite importantly right now to use that money i doubt what is official language of the german government. emergency services have recovered more bodies from the russian pleasure boat that sank in the boulder river two weeks ago killing one hundred twenty two people the wrecked ship has been lifted from the bottom and towed to shallow waters task is now to drain the hole so investigators can examine the vessel in detail to figure out the cause of the catastrophe the search continues
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for two others whose fate remains unknown but it's believed their bodies could still be trapped inside the bulgaria went down within minutes on the tenth of july drowning more than half its two hundred passengers the boat's owner is under investigation two people have already been charged with violating safety precautions. there not a some other stories making headlines across the globe a car bomb has killed eight soldiers in yemen's coastal city of eight in the blast happened near the entrance of an army cap as a convoy of vehicles packed with troops was about to leave officials said they were being sent to fight al qaeda linked militants in a nearby province the country was hit by months of anti-government protests including clashes between security forces and armed groups. most of celebrities and friends paid tribute to british soldiers as diva amy winehouse who was found dead in her london flat saturday police say the cause of death remains under investigation the twenty seven year old star won many awards including five grammys
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for her work and had been hailed as one of the most talented singers of her age but her success was often overshadow. well documented battle with drugs and alcohol the subject of her hit song rehab last month she canceled a european tour after the lead off stage during the formants in serbia. the congress and the white house have failed to break a stalemate in negotiations on the u.s. national debt ceiling lawmakers must approve the right raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling before an august second deadline to avoid default both republicans and democrats say the world's financial markets are at risk if the u.s. fails to pay its massive debts president obama has already rejected any kind of quick fix measure as it could jeopardize investor confidence in the u.s. is prized aaa credit rating. latest operations led by nato and afghan forces sixteen insurgents have been killed in the country's south the raid comes in response to renewed taliban activity as nato begins
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a gradual withdrawal from afghanistan the plan is to recall all foreign combat troops by the end of two thousand and fourteen nato as new military commander in the country general john allen warns of tough times ahead for the war effort earlier this month the afghan president's half brother was assassinated by one of his own guards and in a separate incident one of president karzai is top advisers was also gunned down u.s. anti-war activism brian becker thinks the coalition may be losing ground in afghanistan or the number of casualties rise. they can't win by staying in fact their presence is becoming the main catalyst for the armed insurgency not only the telegram but maybe one hundred forty armed groups and they can't leave either because if they leave there will be a perception that the us and nato were defeated by an armed insurgency but this dilemma must be solved some way so ultimately the united states cannot prevail the assassination of karzai as brother and his inner circle shows that the edifice of
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the karzai regime necessary at least to give afghan face to the. nato occupation that itself is now crumbling these armed attacks these assassination attempts are designed to create panic and i think in all likelihood they are creating panic within the very heart the foundation of the karzai government the u.s. is losing grown steadily it's spending one hundred twenty billion dollars a year that's an increasing amount from the treasury that's already drained based on huge budget deficits here the number of casualties on the afghan and american side is is increasing not decreasing and yet they're no closer to victory in fact they're losing control of the country and the government that they sponsor is is in fact in danger of crumbling i would say the u.s. hasn't gained anything i think the u.s. is losing ground and spite of what david petraeus and the obama administration say this is a bad situation possibly a catastrophe for the united states as dado started handing over control in parts of afghanistan to local security forces some analysts fear the country is ill
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equipped to fend off insurgency without foreign aid and is concerned also that afghans are divided with some worried it'll open the door to her return of taliban rule jason malard has more. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall lucky for them this is the kabul military training center in the bullets being fired blanks the men here halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way its ranks have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks the soldiers insist they are all united in their desire to beat back the taliban led insurgency regardless of age or ethnicity then in the army we are all brothers and
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we are all called by one name. by the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of woman soldiers has just graduated. and there is even a mujahedeen unit made up of hardened veterans of the anti soviet jihad this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen going to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation in the police force and has even been featured in the recent movie. but as the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quantity of troops may be coming in the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command
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loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not neutral. be fighting each other we kill each other. going to. the groups to control. yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand. jason called for. the u.s. has been carrying out unmanned drone strikes in pakistan for several years but now one of the supervisors of the program is himself in the crosshairs former cia official john rizzo faces lawsuit over civilian casualties human rights attorneys and the families of victims are seeking an arrest warrant for him they claim rizzo approved a list of targets for one of the drone strikes that often resulted in scores of
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civilian deaths tara marie is a member of the campaign group that's bringing action against rizzo she tells r t that washington must be held accountable for its operations in pakistan thus far these drones have been operating in pakistan in the federal federal administrated tribal areas and they've been operating in secret by the cia and they've been killing indiscriminately hundreds of civilians and so that the purpose of this is his hopefully to get transparency out of out of the cia and out of obama and sued to get some justice on behalf of the victims of these drone strikes as we know the u.s. is not in a war in pakistan the usa is operating extra legally by carrying out these drone strikes in pakistan in yemen in somalia and in terms of it being disproportionate you know we have numbers coming out of pakistan that indicate that you know for every one suspected militant that's being killed one hundred forty innocent civilians are dying as
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a result of these strikes and so if those numbers are correct you know we have people on the ground who are who are gathering the information who are doing the investigation to try to collect the information so that we can bring a more transparent more honest picture to the public about what's happening in pakistan. that's the hours main news i'll be back with the headlines after a short break stay with us here on our team.
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markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on. six thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines norway mourns the victims of friday's bombing and shooting rampage that claimed the lives of at least ninety three people and shook the country to its foundations the norwegian man charged with carrying out the attack says his actions were both gruesome but necessary. thousands returned to the streets of madrid calling for the government to tackle i don't play mean and take action over the country's crippling recession this is greece gets the ok for another multibillion
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euro cash injection from the e.u. . no pie in the face this week for rupert murdoch but the media mogul still facing an opening salvo of questions in the u.s. over phone hacking allegations murdoch and his son james were earlier grilled by the british parliament over the scandal that has shaken police politicians and the press. challenges on earth to those in the space r.t. sophie shevardnadze sits down to interview one of the first men to set foot on the moon buzz aldrin interview coming up next. it's a great pleasure and honor to have you with us here today thanks so i always went to ask you are we alone out there. there's no evidence that
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says that. we're not alone but i really think to get to the question of are they out there of course they are where i don't there's no evidence for euthanasia. you know that's that's a. jumping to bizarre results with incomplete information we were very careful not to excite the people who would jump to the conclusion that an observation immediately meant some thing that. was from somewhere else either a testing of unusual object or something from beyond the earth. there many are many.

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